Continue to Support the Mises Institute at 99%

“This is not the first time libertarians have disagreed with one another.”

If you donate $100 per year to the Mises Institute (MI), cut it back to $99. If you contribute $1,000, reduce it to $990. If $100,000, then make it $99,000. Why should you reduce your support for this libertarian organization by 1%? Because they have mistreated me, a long-time member of the MI community. This would be a good protest against their unjust actions. They have taken away my Senior Fellow status. I have written, oh, maybe 100 or more articles on LewRockwell.com (LRC), and these have all disappeared. I tried to access them, to no avail. I asked Lew to send them to me. No response.

Why this harshness? It is due to the fact that I have supported Israel vis-à-vis Hamas, Hezbollah, Houthies, Iran, etc., and the MI takes the opposite position. This is not the first time libertarians have disagreed with one another. Murray Rothbard was pro-choice. Former Congressman Ron Paul was pro-life. They could not both be correctly deducing these positions from libertarian principles, since these two libertarian leaders contradict one another. Yet, neither has ever come within a million miles of being cancelled, as I have been, and abortion is at least as important an issue as is the one concerning Israel and its enemies. In addition, leading libertarians also sharply disagree on immigration, voluntary slavery, reparations for slavery, and many other issues. Never have any cancellations arisen over these other important matters.

Why, then, should one continue support for the MI at the 99% level? It is because even considering this grievous error of theirs, they (I am saddened by the fact that I must use this word, instead of “we”) are still by far the best institution which carries the banner for libertarianism, Austrian economics, and human prosperity.